During his interview with Brand, Rafael Nadal spoke at length about his severe pain in his left foot, caused by Müller-Weiss syndrome, which he suffered from when he was 18 years old. He looked back on his crazy fortnight at Roland‐Garros with lucidity, especially about the semi‐final against Alexander Zverev (7−6, 6–6, then the German retired following a terrible fall).
« Mon 14e Roland‐Garros title came quite unexpectedly, because a week earlier I had left Rome limping. It’s the truth. It is clear that if the doctors had not found the solution to numb the nerve of my foot to make the pain disappear, I could not have won Roland Garros. I arrived with very poor preparation but I had the confidence to have won in Australia and the day I needed to play very well, in the quarter-finals against Djokovic, I did. We must also be realistic and admit that the semi‐finals against Zverev were very complicated and that anything could have happened but the poor man ‘cracked’ his ankle. »
Published on Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 08:26
